Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 76 58
Rank change year-on-year -44 -18 -12
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,372 1,535 3,694
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.65% 3.75% 4.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 4.04% 4.66%
Number of salaries quoted 921 1,059 2,794
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +15.38% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -4.91%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 63,393 38,022 79,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.08% 92.93% 86.08%
Number of salaries quoted 39,190 22,514 58,792
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,008
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% +7.38% -7.94%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -38 1,252 £77,500 +3.33% 515
London +7 679 £87,500 +2.94% 226
Work from Home -24 606 £70,000 -2.78% 349
UK excluding London -117 582 £67,500 -3.57% 339
North of England -46 269 £69,305 -3.73% 130
North West -46 124 £70,000 -1.75% 76
South East -113 119 £75,000 +11.11% 90
Yorkshire -37 103 £69,310 -3.72% 31
South West -79 60 £63,750 -6.97% 35
Midlands -79 58 £67,500 +3.85% 36
North East -1 42 £65,000 +23.81% 28
East of England -39 40 £63,750 +10.87% 20
West Midlands -31 34 £72,500 +1.75% 21
Scotland -73 30 £60,000 -20.00% 16
East Midlands -70 23 £67,250 +3.46% 15
Wales -29 10 £54,185 +6.25% 13
Northern Ireland -39 5 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 31 (2.26%) Apache Spark
2 21 (1.53%) Apache
3 18 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (1.31%) Confluence
4 15 (1.09%) OpenStack
4 15 (1.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 13 (0.95%) JBoss
6 11 (0.80%) IIS
6 11 (0.80%) WebSphere
7 9 (0.66%) CMS
8 5 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
8 5 (0.36%) Appian
9 4 (0.29%) Camunda
9 4 (0.29%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.29%) nginx
10 3 (0.22%) Liferay
10 3 (0.22%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.073%) CICS
Applications
1 14 (1.02%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.51%) Maya
4 5 (0.36%) PlantUML
5 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.073%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.15%) Endur
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Shopify
6 1 (0.073%) Actimize
6 1 (0.073%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.073%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.073%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.073%) Quorum
6 1 (0.073%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.073%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.073%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 756 (55.10%) AWS
2 575 (41.91%) Azure
3 310 (22.59%) GCP
4 248 (18.08%) Serverless
5 165 (12.03%) SaaS
6 117 (8.53%) AWS Lambda
7 115 (8.38%) GitHub
8 112 (8.16%) Amazon S3
9 106 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
10 104 (7.58%) Amazon EKS
11 76 (5.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 71 (5.17%) Amazon SQS
13 70 (5.10%) Amazon ECS
14 56 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
15 52 (3.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 49 (3.57%) OpenShift
17 46 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
18 42 (3.06%) PaaS
19 41 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
20 38 (2.77%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.72%) Broadband
2 10 (0.73%) HTTP
3 9 (0.66%) AMQP
4 8 (0.58%) Network Security
5 7 (0.51%) Firewall
5 7 (0.51%) Internet
6 6 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (0.44%) DNS
7 5 (0.36%) DHCP
7 5 (0.36%) MQTT
8 4 (0.29%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.29%) SNMP
8 4 (0.29%) WAN
9 3 (0.22%) LTE
9 3 (0.22%) Modbus
9 3 (0.22%) Multicast
9 3 (0.22%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
10 2 (0.15%) RFID
10 2 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (13.48%) NoSQL
2 174 (12.68%) PostgreSQL
3 117 (8.53%) MongoDB
4 110 (8.02%) SQL Server
5 73 (5.32%) MySQL
6 69 (5.03%) Relational Database
7 67 (4.88%) DynamoDB
8 47 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (2.84%) Redis
10 35 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
11 33 (2.41%) BigQuery
12 31 (2.26%) Big Data
13 22 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
13 22 (1.60%) RDBMS
14 14 (1.02%) Power BI
15 13 (0.95%) DB2
15 13 (0.95%) Pinecone
16 11 (0.80%) Data Lake
17 9 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 188 (13.70%) Git
2 128 (9.33%) Jenkins
3 90 (6.56%) GitLab
4 55 (4.01%) TeamCity
5 49 (3.57%) JIRA
6 42 (3.06%) Cucumber
7 34 (2.48%) JUnit
8 31 (2.26%) Cypress.io
8 31 (2.26%) Selenium
9 30 (2.19%) CircleCI
10 21 (1.53%) Bitbucket
11 18 (1.31%) Maven
11 18 (1.31%) Mockito
12 14 (1.02%) Claude Code
13 13 (0.95%) SonarQube
14 11 (0.80%) Vite
15 10 (0.73%) JMeter
15 10 (0.73%) Postman
16 8 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
16 8 (0.58%) Visual Studio
General
1 404 (29.45%) Finance
2 361 (26.31%) Social Skills
3 162 (11.81%) Banking
4 103 (7.51%) Law
5 101 (7.36%) Public Sector
6 89 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
7 79 (5.76%) Retail
8 72 (5.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (4.08%) Financial Institution
10 53 (3.86%) Telecoms
11 45 (3.28%) Back Office
12 26 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.38%) Legal
14 18 (1.31%) Advertising
14 18 (1.31%) Billing
15 17 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (1.09%) Games
17 14 (1.02%) Marketing
18 12 (0.87%) Aerospace
19 11 (0.80%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 468 (34.11%) Developer
2 360 (26.24%) Senior
3 283 (20.63%) Software Engineer
4 216 (15.74%) Architect
5 175 (12.76%) Lead
6 118 (8.60%) Full-Stack Developer
7 117 (8.53%) Senior Developer
8 112 (8.16%) Java Developer
9 98 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
10 97 (7.07%) Senior Software Engineer
11 89 (6.49%) Java Engineer
12 70 (5.10%) .NET Developer
13 65 (4.74%) Software Developer
14 52 (3.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 48 (3.50%) Java Software Engineer
16 47 (3.43%) Lead Developer
17 45 (3.28%) Principal Engineer
18 40 (2.92%) C# Developer
18 40 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
19 38 (2.77%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (22.45%) React
2 296 (21.57%) .NET
3 279 (20.34%) RESTful
4 227 (16.55%) Spring
5 218 (15.89%) REST
6 205 (14.94%) Node.js
7 198 (14.43%) Spring Boot
8 177 (12.90%) Kafka
9 112 (8.16%) AngularJS
10 93 (6.78%) gRPC
11 87 (6.34%) .NET Core
12 80 (5.83%) HTML
13 71 (5.17%) CSS
14 66 (4.81%) RabbitMQ
15 65 (4.74%) .NET Framework
16 57 (4.15%) ASP.NET
17 55 (4.01%) Vue
18 54 (3.94%) Middleware
19 52 (3.79%) Django
20 51 (3.72%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 403 (29.37%) Cloud Native
2 244 (17.78%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (7.80%) Product Ownership
4 94 (6.85%) Enterprise Software
5 57 (4.15%) Greenfield Project
6 55 (4.01%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (3.28%) Over-the-Top Content
7 45 (3.28%) Video\Live Streaming
8 39 (2.84%) Data Structures
9 35 (2.55%) Algorithms
10 29 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
10 29 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (1.82%) Mobile App
11 25 (1.82%) Virtual Team
12 23 (1.68%) Blockchain
13 22 (1.60%) AI Agents
14 17 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
15 16 (1.17%) IoT
15 16 (1.17%) Management Information System
15 16 (1.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 66 (4.81%) Linux
2 27 (1.97%) Windows
3 16 (1.17%) Android
4 9 (0.66%) Unix
5 7 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.44%) CentOS
6 6 (0.44%) Debian
6 6 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.44%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.073%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.073%) VMS
7 1 (0.073%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 666 (48.54%) CI/CD
2 549 (40.01%) Agile
3 540 (39.36%) DevOps
4 527 (38.41%) Software Engineering
5 384 (27.99%) Containerisation
6 317 (23.10%) Full-Stack Development
7 291 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
8 284 (20.70%) Mentoring
9 279 (20.34%) Event-Driven
10 265 (19.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 264 (19.24%) Test Automation
12 242 (17.64%) AI
13 206 (15.01%) Infrastructure as Code
14 198 (14.43%) Computer Science
15 167 (12.17%) Scrum
16 162 (11.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 158 (11.52%) Clean Code
17 158 (11.52%) Roadmaps
17 158 (11.52%) Technical Leadership
18 150 (10.93%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 453 (33.02%) Java
2 381 (27.77%) Python
3 287 (20.92%) SQL
4 267 (19.46%) JavaScript
5 244 (17.78%) C#
6 210 (15.31%) TypeScript
7 127 (9.26%) Go
8 51 (3.72%) Scala
9 42 (3.06%) C++
9 42 (3.06%) PHP
10 35 (2.55%) Bash
10 35 (2.55%) C
11 29 (2.11%) Ruby
12 22 (1.60%) Kotlin
12 22 (1.60%) PL/SQL
13 17 (1.24%) PowerShell
14 16 (1.17%) Shell Script
15 13 (0.95%) Rust
16 10 (0.73%) Groovy
17 8 (0.58%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 198 (14.43%) Degree
2 122 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 119 (8.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 87 (6.34%) SC Cleared
5 58 (4.23%) AWS Certification
6 38 (2.77%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.77%) Master's Degree
7 30 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 30 (2.19%) TOGAF Certification
8 26 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (1.31%) DV Cleared
10 16 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
11 15 (1.09%) CISSP
12 10 (0.73%) CISM
13 9 (0.66%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.58%) PhD
15 6 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.44%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.36%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (6.12%) QA
2 32 (2.33%) GDPR
3 27 (1.97%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.97%) PCI DSS
4 22 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.02%) SOC 2
6 13 (0.95%) NIST
7 10 (0.73%) NCSC
8 8 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.51%) GRC
10 6 (0.44%) IFRS
11 5 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.29%) SLA
12 4 (0.29%) WCAG
13 3 (0.22%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.22%) SEPA
14 1 (0.073%) EMIR
14 1 (0.073%) PSD2
System Software
1 419 (30.54%) Docker
2 13 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.36%) Firmware
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.073%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.073%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 426 (31.05%) Kubernetes
2 249 (18.15%) Terraform
3 89 (6.49%) Grafana
4 82 (5.98%) Ansible
5 39 (2.84%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.68%) Kibana
7 16 (1.17%) Argo
8 9 (0.66%) HP Fortify
8 9 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.51%) Puppet
10 5 (0.36%) Cilium
11 4 (0.29%) Istio
11 4 (0.29%) Packer
11 4 (0.29%) Rancher
12 3 (0.22%) Nagios
13 2 (0.15%) MIIS
13 2 (0.15%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 121 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 62 (4.52%) Google
3 51 (3.72%) Oracle
4 45 (3.28%) Typelevel
5 19 (1.38%) IBM
6 16 (1.17%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.17%) Red Hat
7 15 (1.09%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.09%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.09%) SAP
8 14 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
9 13 (0.95%) AppDynamics
10 10 (0.73%) Atlassian
10 10 (0.73%) Cisco
10 10 (0.73%) Palo Alto
10 10 (0.73%) Software AG
10 10 (0.73%) Splunk
11 9 (0.66%) Databricks
12 8 (0.58%) MuleSoft
13 7 (0.51%) BiZZdesign